APPROACH TO THERAPY
Healing Space
As your therapist, I can offer a calm presence, listening, empathy, acceptance, and sensitivity coupled with gentle guidance that draws on nearly six decades of my own life lessons and experiences as well what I’ve learned from others. Working together, you can count on a safe space to pause, reflect, and call forth your natural strengths, innate wisdom, and deep-rooted resilience in the pursuit of positive change, inner peace, and passionate living.
How We Work
In the beginning, we will build rapport and talk about what brought you in – your concerns, needs, and what you hope to get out of counseling. If you don’t know, that’s ok; we’ll uncover them together. I’m dedicated to helping you make sense of your thoughts, emotions, patterns of behavior, and life events by bringing a balance of comfort, curiosity, candor, compassion, and challenge to the therapeutic process.
As we go further into the work of therapy, you will be invited to slow down, turn inward, and dig deep. In doing so, we will contemplate your inner landscape, experiences, and relationships. We will invite wonder and the answers to some of life’s most thought-provoking questions. Importantly, we will also consider practical tools and strategies for relieving symptoms as well as for coping with changes and uncertainties, alleviating stress, and negotiating everyday demands.
Using an existential approach to therapy that primarily integrates mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral interventions taken from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as well as insights from The Enneagram, we will mindfully connect with the present, seek insights, cultivate acceptance, ponder empowering perspectives, explore new possibilities, clarify what’s important to you, and do what matters. Over time, you can trust your relationship with yourself, others, and life will begin to shift in purposeful and meaningful ways.
What To Expect
Full contact with life – its suffering, its joy, its mystery – and your journey to greater well-being, meaning, and fulfillment through therapy will summon your willingness, courage, and vulnerability coupled with an unwavering commitment to the pursuit of your true potential at a pace that’s just right for you.
If you’re open to it, therapy can not only be healing, but a powerful impetus for the gradual emergence of an authentic, wholehearted way of being and a gratifying experience of life despite its changes and challenges.
Get Started
If you’re ready to take this step with me, please reach out. I’d be happy to join you in your healing and growth!
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
— Rumi